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Single-vehicle crash kills driver in Columbia County

BENTON — Daniel J. Hartman, 35, of Benton, was killed Sunday afternoon in a one-car crash on Pole Ridge Road in Jackson Township, according to the state police. Hartman, who was not wearing his seat belt, was traveling east in the 100 block of Pole Bridge Road when he lost control of his 2009 ...

Teen killed in Clinton County fire

FLEMINGTON - An 18-year-old woman perished early Sunday morning in a three-alarm house fire that broke out in the 200 block of High Street, the state police confirmed. While three family members managed to escape the blaze about 4:30 a.m., Alissa Shayla Demanno was trapped and could not get ...

Sullivan County blaze destroys house in Dushore; two left homeless

DUSHORE - The American Red Cross is assisting a husband-wife who were were left homeless Friday night after flames consumed their large three-story wood plank house at 180 Marsh Road, about a half mile north of here, according to borough Fire Chief John Yonkin. No one was home when a ...

Locals, out-of-stater face various charges in Lycoming County

Montgomery man faces a new set of state police charges Felony charges have been lodged against David J. Pierce, the 37-year-old Montgomery man who was arrested just last week on state police charges of allegedly pointing what looked very much like a machine gun - but wasn’t - at motorists ...

Park Avenue man faces felony sex charges

Jaime Badger, 39, of 345 Park Ave., has been arrested on four felony charges after allegedly having inappropriate contact with a female minor on at least two occasions in the last two years, according to court documents city police recently filed at the office of District Judge Aaron Biichle. ...

2 men jailed following separate domestic disturbances

During an altercation Sunday afternoon with his girlfriend at his home, James M. Confer “grabbed the woman by her neck and began choking her to the point that she was unable to breathe. He then slammed her up against the wall repeatedly before she was forced” to go from the first floor to ...